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Show 11 i HOW ARE WE ALL GOING TO EAT? It is an accepted fact that the World's worst food shortage shor-tage of modern times is at hand. Senator Vandenberg says that there is need for a special session of Congress before January, to act upon relief to the starving people of Europe. Senator Taft does not favor the extra session. ' It is the President's responsibility to call that session, if the Congress is to be reconvened. There is another side of this same question, and that is the high cost of food right here in every part of the United Unit-ed States. There are several million Americans who are working on "slave wages,'' and not one of them belongs to a labor union. Thousands of deserving folks don't get pay enough to buy sufficient food to keep themselves and their families going, no matter how hard they struggle to keep off publ IC relief rolls. So, white the politicians are crying their eyes out about people in foreign lands, they should spend more time preventing pre-venting pyramiding of wages in many industries that nave reached the peaks. How can poverty-stricken people pay around a dollar a dozen for eggs, and nearly a dollar for a pound of butter? If you have the answer you are doing better than most of the politicians who are managing our National Government. |